Oct 10, 2014, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Roche, which has been retooling its next generation sequencing strategy since beginning the closure of 454 Life Sciences last October, has acquired a new sample preparation technology for an NGS pipeline.

Oct 10, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BILLERICA, MA - Oct 10, 2014 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of John Luckey, Ph

Oct 9, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RADNOR, PA, UNITED STATES - Oct 9, 2014 - Cortendo AB [ticker: CORT on NOTC-A], a global biopharmaceutical company focused on orphan endocrine disorders, announced the appointment of Robert Lutz as Chief Business Officer

Oct 8, 2014, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The OneOmics Project, a partnership between Illumina and mass spectrometry provider AB SCIEX, has produced a network of apps in the BaseSpace cloud informatics environment to store and analyze mass spec and proteomics data, the first multi-omics functions in Illumina's flagship analytics project.

Oct 7, 2014, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft

Imperial College London News | The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are well known for mutations that raise the risk of developing breast cancer, but their structure, and the mechanisms by which healthy copies of these proteins repair broken DNA strands, have been little understood.

Oct 7, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct 7, 2014 - Cambridge-based charity DNAdigest spins out social enterprise Nucleobase to develop Open Source platforms to support efficient data access and secure knowledge sharing for genomics research

Oct 6, 2014, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser today received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with former supervisor John O'Keefe, for their discovery of "grid cells" in the brain's entorhinal cortex.

Oct 3, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Today, the FDA officially issued a pair of draft guidance documents outlining its regulatory plans for laboratory developed tests.

Oct 3, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 3, 2014 - Clinical Conductor CTMS, the leading clinical trial management system, and OpenClinica, one of the world's most widely adopted electronic data capture (EDC) software platforms, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to deliver a seamless EDC-CTMS integration to drive productivity in clinical research

Oct 2, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including early-stage pharma startups supported by GSK and Avalon Ventures, and the Eaglecore cloud knowledge management platform.

Oct 1, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The U-BIOPRED Consortium, an international project searching for novel biomarkers to better define severe asthma cases, received a Bio-IT World Best Practices Award this spring for its far-reaching implementation of the tranSMART knowledge management platform.

Oct 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oct 1, 2014 - Databiology Inc., a global life sciences software and services company, announced today that the genetic variant knowledge-base and genome interpretation capabilities of Tute Genomics Inc

Oct 1, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Oct 1, 2014 - Clinical Conductor CTMS, the leading clinical trial management system, and OpenClinica, one of the world's most widely adopted electronic data capture (EDC) software platforms, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to deliver a seamless EDC-CTMS integration to drive productivity in clinical research

Sep 30, 2014, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, the NIH announced the recipients of its first round of grants tied to the nationwide BRAIN Initiative, totaling $46 million in funding for research meant to develop an integrated understanding of human brain function.

Sep 30, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Sep 30, 2014 - Maverix Biomics Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced that Jim Bristow, M

Sep 30, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 30, 2014 -   WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is showcasing its 30-year history of success in drug development strategies and services, including risk-based monitoring (RBM) strategies, at the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) New England Conference taking place October 7-8 in Boston, Massachusetts

Sep 29, 2014, 08:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Transcriptic, the programmable lab-for-hire, has moved to a new, 10,000-square foot location as it adds more instruments and "work cells" where experiments are conducted.

Sep 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - Sep 29, 2014 -  Final results from a Phase 2 trial of binimetinib in patients with advanced NRAS mutant melanoma were presented today at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Meeting in Madrid, Spain

Sep 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 29, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the release of Biosimilars: A Global Perspective of a New Market – Opportunities, Threats and Critical Strategies 2014

Sep 26, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a line of mice whose cells naturally express the Cas9 protein used in CRISPR gene editing, which can be used for virtually any gene knockdown experiment.